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Brexit: On the vote in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: On the vote in Wales

...economic model, the media, and so on. For once, we have to think long-term about our future. The result has usefully illuminated many of the stubborn problems that a post-Brexit Wales – whatever its constitutional status – must confront and tackle. As Richard Wyn Jones points out, the reality is that the Leave vote demonstrates the failures of devolution. Had the...
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Does the rural idyll really exist?
Nature & Environment

Does the rural idyll really exist?

...economically, the ones without an industrial heritage. Then in 1973 even the industry went, the big wage packets, the good hedonistic working class lifestyle that had developed in Coventry was then destroyed or at least severely damaged. I’m not surprised that growing up in the period inspired you to write the sort of music that you did. Terry: So what cities do you...
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...Zamir, E. et al. (2014) ‘Judicial Decision-Making’, in E. Zamir and D. Teichman (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law. Oxford University Press. Available at: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199945474.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199945474-e-026 (Accessed: 12 November 2015). Forfeiture Act 1982 c.34...
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What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...economic upheavals, are likely to disrupt societies and individuals in the future. Adapting to this context requires flexibility in coping with such disruptions effectively and without the certainty of what such problems will look like in the future. Psychological flexibility can be defined as the extent of how well a person adapts to changing situational demands,...
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Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...economic experimental area in September 2013. The Chinese government issued a notice that welcomes foreign game companies manufacturing and selling game devices, after approval by the Ministry of Culture (in accordance with the guidelines of video-game censorship). Despite the uncertain future of China’s game market, Microsoft soon announced a partnership with BestTV, a...
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Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...Economics website. [Booth map of Arnold Circus] Arnold Circus, London in the 20th century Arnold Circus residents come and go, reflecting the waves of migration into London. The Boundary Street Estate [Plan of Arnold Circus] Arnold Circus tells a history of comings and goings. The Boundary Street Estate, with Arnold Circus at its centre, was a ‘model development’...
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The Borders of Astrobiology
Science, Maths & Technology

The Borders of Astrobiology

...economic value) is, in my opinion, weird, exceptionally narrow-minded, and arrogant to the extent of being silly. We are human and we see things from a human perspective, but we are perfectly capable of understanding that things can exist without relation to us, just as Earth existed for billions of years before we came along, with all kinds of complex things going on....
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...economics, and Britain's relationship with Europe and the rest of the world. In the process, they seem to have been competent in highlighting how incompetent they are. The basis for goodwill trust The recent political climate in the UK highlights a trend of ever-increasing and shameless lack of integrity and benevolence. The ‘callous’ implementation of austerity which...
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